Pramac partners with Yamaha for MotoGP 2025 

Prima Pramac Racing will receive factory-spec YZR-M1 bikes and direct rider contracts with Yamaha in 2025 to boost MotoGP rivalry.

Pramac Racing will become Yamaha’s new satellite team in 2025

Yamaha and Prima Pramac Racing have announced a new multi-year partnership, beginning in 2025. Under this agreement, Prima Pramac Racing will become Yamaha’s “second Factory Team” while maintaining its status as an Independent Team on the MotoGP grid.

This collaboration involves close cooperation between the two parties, with Yamaha providing factory-spec YZR-M1 bikes for Prima Pramac Racing. Yamaha will directly hire the riders, and Yamaha’s MotoGP engineering staff will collaborate with the Pramac team.

The rider lineup for the 2025 Prima Pramac Racing team will be announced at a later date. By doubling Yamaha’s presence on the MotoGP grid, the company aims to signal its strong intentions to return to winning form.

Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing, stated, “These are busy times for Yamaha, both on track and behind the scenes. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (YMC) and Yamaha Motor Racing (YMR) have made it clear that they are fully committed to bike development.

“We now enter the next phase – one that we have been looking forward to for a long time: the arrival of a second Yamaha team.

“The new partnership with Prima Pramac Racing will take a different form than we have used in the past.

“Rather than a satellite team, with this new agreement, Yamaha has placed their trust in Pramac Racing, and we will provide them with Factory bikes of the same specification used by the Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Team.

“The goals are to accelerate bike development, which remains YMC and YMR’s key priority in our quest to return to winning ways, as well as to have four competitive riders in the MotoGP championship in two top-class teams.